Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord ? Who may stand in his holy place?

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

Psalms 24:3-4 CSB

In these days of Covid-19, seems that I'm washing my hands a lot.

How do I know that they're really clean? 

They look clean to me.

Last week we looked at the first 2 verses of this Psalm, this song, to look up at the bigness of God and breathe Him in.

And then v 3 asks the question who gets to go meet with God?

Takes us back to Moses and Joshua heading up the mountain while the people waited.

Then he gives us the criteria:

Clean hands. Someone who's actions and the way that they live is always right.

Pure heart. Motives that are never selfish, always pure.

Someone who's never followed an idol or believed a lie...

Impossible.

Unattainable.

We are pulled forward to the one person who could claim this;

Jesus.

Who's clean hands and pure heart were smashed into, for us.

Our hands made clean

Our hearts made pure

Made clean

Made pure

That's the outrageous grace of the gospel that does not condemn because I'm not good enough, but makes me good enough through the cross.

#amazinggrace

#dearlyloved

#restinthat